Now That He Needs Disaster Relief, Barack Obama Is Rick Perry’s New Best Friend

[Tx4obama]

Now That He Needs Disaster Relief, Barack Obama Is Rick Perry’s New Best Friend

Now that he needs disaster relief after the fertilizer plant explosion in West, TX, Gov. Rick Perry is full of praise for, and thanks to President Obama.

Here is the video of Gov. Perry from ABC News: (video at the link below)

During his press conference on the situation in West, Perry said, “President Obama called from Air Force One as he was en route to Boston,” Perry said. “We greatly appreciate his call, and his gracious offer of support, of course, and the quick turnaround of the emergency declaration that will be forthcoming, and his offer of prayers.”

Now that Perry needs something, President Obama isn’t such a bad guy.

It’s almost like Perry wants us to forget his 2011 presidential campaign ad where he accused the president of waging a war on religion.

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Like most other elected Republicans, Rick Perry demonized President Obama until he needed something. In true hypocrite fashion, his worst enemy is now his best friend.

The full article here: http://www.politicususa.com/disaster-relief-barack-obama-rick-perrys-friend.html

[SirRevolutionary]

1. Too late

I thought he seceded a while back

[Laurian]

2. I thought Texas was rolling in dough.

Why would they need federal assistance. They were ready to secede a few months ago.

[SmittynMo]

3. Rick Perry is an idiot

He will always be an idiot. As for Texas, I wish they would have seceded from the US. They'd be in a world of hurt now. And it's very typical for republicans to flip flop, so I expected this with Obama. Oh, and did you hear the Texas senator that said he voted no on the background checks because 26 million in Texas agreed with him. Now wait, with 90% of the country indicating they approve of background checks, including gun owners, that means that almost all of the 10% are in Texas. What bullshit!!!

[SummerSnow]

4. I wouldnt give him a damn thing

[Blue Owl]

5. File under: The Christie Chronicles

The GOP is all hat, no cattle.

Make that all asshat, no cattle...

[Sunlei]

6. How about taking the funds from the 55 year old West Fertilizer?

When I googled- they list as 55 years, 6-9 employees and ~50 million a year. Seems like a lack of safety regulations for these type of businesses? That's the State leaderships fault.

[DFW]

7. Texas is anything but rolling in dough

We don't have a state income tax here, and there's a reason rich folks like to come here (like that family from Connecticut named Bush, for example), and when Texans strike it rich, they stay here.

Our budget is "balanced" due to phony accounting. We are in a deep budgetary deficit like most States. Perry doesn't like to admit it, of course, but when our state's empty coffers are exposed by something like the plant explosion, he's only too willing to accept federal money. Perry is nowhere as smart as Christie, but even in Texas we know how to use a pocket calculator, and we know what the minus sign means--we see it every time Louie Gohmert's IQ is discussed.

Oh, and give the secession talk a rest, people. Yeah, we have Perry, Gohmert, Cruz, Stockman and other pond scum representing us at the moment. We're also the state that gave America Ann Richards, her daughter Cecile, and Molly Ivins, and three million people who voted for Obama, of which I am one. Go diss Mississippi or Nauru for a change.

[Cha]

8. I enjoyed your post, DFW.. although I'm sorry about

the status of your coffers in Texas and the mind set that got it there. No, state income tax? However do they pay Perry's salary and all those other state workers, First Responders, etc, etc, etc?

Good support rant for your state of Texas.

[DFW]

9. Of all the states that WOULD benefit from a state income tax, we are right up there

Many of us in TX are sick and tired of Rick Oops Perry crowing that he has balanced our state budget with his accounting mumbo jumbo. No one is fooled. Even a 1% state income tax in a state as big as ours would bring in a fortune, even after the cost of administering it. That cost would be considerable, but if the tax would be so small as to not making compliance hurt, it would bring in much needed funds. As it is, we do have a 5.5% sales tax as well as a few bullshit rules that make it somewhere between advantageous to imperative that some businesses uselessly build up their inventories at year end in order to have a bigger inventory than they need--or is healthy--in order not to get hit with some kind of tax at the end of the calendar year. In other words, more mumbo jumbo.

I know as well as the next person how many horrible public "servants (more like public serpents)" we have in/from Texas. It is apparently uncool these days to recall openly that we have a huge supply of good people here, too. That doesn't fit in with some people's pre-conceived notions of Texas. Progressives are not immune to prejudice. But hell, as a southerner who lives in Europe and takes his summer vacations in Massachusetts, I can tell you that there are reactionary racists in Boston that could convince you they were from Galveston if they didn't say "fahty dawllahs" instead of "forty dollars." Massachusetts doesn't have a monopoly on good people any more than Texas has a monopoly on bad ones.

[Tippy]

10. I feel sorry that lives were lost..But I don't think the taxpayers should foot the bill on this one.

This was a private company that kept OSHA out this was preventable....